The Parting Glass reel

Also known as The Cork March, The Peacock’s Feather, The Peacock’s March, The Peacock.

There are 59 recordings of a tune by this name.

The Parting Glass has been added to 91 tunebooks.

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Two settings

X: 1
T: The Parting Glass
R: reel
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: Amin
|:e>d | c2 B>c A2 AB | cdec d2 cd | e2 a ^f g=fed | c2 a2 g2 e>d |
c2 B>c A2 AB | cdec d2 cd | e2 af gfed | c2 A2 A2 :|
|: e>f | gfga gfed | e2 A2 A2 B>A | gfed cBcd | e2 G2 G2 e>d |
c2 B>c A2 AB | cdec d2 cd | e2 af gfed| c2 A2 A2 :|
X: 2
T: The Parting Glass
R: reel
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: Amin
GEFD ~E3 F | ~G3 B ~A2 GA | B ~e3 edBA |1 G ~E3 (3DED :|
(3dcd Bd ~e2 (3Bcd | edBG ~A2 Bc | d ~B3 edBA | GEFE D2 BA |
~G2 FD ~E3 F | GFGB (3ABA GA | Be (3def edBA | GE (3FED E2 ||

Nine comments

This is technically a reel but also works well as an air.

Comes out here more march-like than reel-like. I’ve heard it many times as an air and, of course, heard many a singer sing the song. In dance music form it is more commonly played in a hornpipe version as "The Peacock’s Feather" Never heard it as a reel.

“technically a reel”?

I’ve always thought of ‘Parting Glass’ as a song air, never a reel. What makes it ‘technically’ a reel?

# Posted by hetty .

“The Parting Glass” / “The Peacock’s March”

As a ‘reel’, it’s ‘single’, without the repeats given here, the same as for the song. Also, as a single reel, it would be played more like a reel, with some differences compared to this transcription, though maybe this is meant to be more of an American style reel. However, song aside, it’s earliest entity is as a march, and the earliest source for it that I know of is that old standby, "O’Farrell’s Pocket Companion",vol. IV, 1810, where he calls it simply "The Peacock", a march…

“The Peacock’s Feather” ~ Reel ~ one take on it with a few rolls

K: E Dorian (can also be played minor, e or a)
|: BA |
GEFD ~E3 F | ~G3 B ~A2 GA | B ~e3 edBA |1 G ~E3 (3DED :|
2 GEFD (3EFE B^c ||
(3dcd Bd ~e2 (3Bcd | edBG ~A2 Bc | d ~B3 edBA | GEFE D2 BA |
~G2 FD ~E3 F | GFGB (3ABA GA | Be (3def edBA | GE (3FED E2 ||

“The Peacock’s Feathers” ~ hornpipe / barndance ~ a distant cousin, ‘in name only’?

ey signature: d minor
Submitted on April 29th 2002 by wordridden.
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Parting Glass as March

Have seen this tune called The Cork March

See "The Peacock" link just previous, the march…